[Cervical polyadenopathy due to Kikuchi and Fujimoto disease].
Kikuchi and Fujimoto disease is a benign subacute necrotizing lymphadenitis, probably associated to a viral infection, that affects mostly young Asian women. We report a 19 years old women, with a vast familiar history of thyroid disease (three uncles with papillary thyroid carcinoma and one with a Hashimoto thyroiditis). After an upper respiratory infection, she presented with painless cervical adenopathies. Cervical ultrasound examination detected an 8 mm thyroidal nodule. She was operated with the diagnosis of thyroidal cancer. The pathological examination confirmed that the nodule was a papillary thyroidal cancer, but the study of the resected lymph nodes, revealed a Kikuchi and Fujimoto disease.
López
J M
JM
Departamento de Endocrinología, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
Alvarez
M
M
Cárdenas
I E
IE
Gallegos
M
M
D000328:Adult; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008199:Lymphadenitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*
Poliadenopatías cervicales por enfermedad de Kikuchi y Fujimoto.